"I will tell you this – what I'm doing is 100% making a really good monster movie. It has nothing to do with anything else. Nothing. Zero," Condon told Collider.

Last year, writer David Koepp talked up the feminist angle to the remake and Condon has enthused that the script "turns everything on its head", since the Bride (played by Elsa Lanchester) only appears at the end of the original 1935 movie.

"This is Eve before Adam, the bride comes first," he explained. "So I keep thinking [it's], in a way, at least a tribute to what [the director James] Whale might have done if he'd made a third Frankenstein movie and he'd done it in the 21st Century."

In a separate interview with Forbes, Condon confirmed that it's all just speculation at the moment. "Nothing is set yet. I think pretty soon but I think we're trying to figure that out now," he outlined.

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Bride of Frankenstein is due to start filming in February 2018, so we shouldn't have to wait too long for a Bride announcement.

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